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At the present time there already exist a number of good introductions to the Mössbauer effect and its applications. There is, therefore, no need to write another, similar, paper, which would in large measure be a copy of earlier ones. In the present chapter we try to avoid this duplication by stressing the physical background and by giving the simplest possible pictures. These pictures may help in explaining the Mössbauer effect to nonphysicists, and they may even amuse some physicists.
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Debrunner, P.G., Frauenfelder, H. (1971). Introduction to the Mössbauer Effect. In: May, L. (eds) An Introduction to Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8911-8_1
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